IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MESMAN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993OR025009
  • User Pedon ID: S1993OR025009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68495
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 42.8224983
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5477753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: About 200 feet north and 2,300 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: on the Steamboat Point quadrangle.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR025—Harney
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR628—Harney County Area, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42119-G5—Steamboat Point, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Xeric Natrargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MESMAN
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mesman
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Xerollic Natrargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/1993
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    1372

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    203

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    8

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse platy parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and medium and 0.5 coarse vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2Btn1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; clay loam; strong medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 30 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00097. Common very fine and fine, and few medium random irregular and tubular pores.
    2Btn2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 10 percent faint clay films; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00098. Common fine and few very fine and medium random irregular and tubular pores. Common fine seams and filaments of white volcanic ash. Strongly effervescent with disseminated lime.
    2Bh—66 to 157 centimeters (26.0 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; clay loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Few very fine and fine random irregular and tubular pores.